Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm Her work is recognised within

Her work is recognised within the mainstream of contemporary art

From the early 1980s

The spring is in a gorge with the open sky shown as a plain expanse of paint above the water and rock faces

thanks to decades of cattle grazing

She won the Northern Territory Art Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Painting in 1986 and was a finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) in 2003

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm Her work is recognised withinGalyas work is distinctive and highly individual. Her early paintings, dating from around 2004, drew on Portulaca oleraceaknown as munyerooa grass once abundant in the Utopia region and an important food source for generations. Its tiny black seed became central to her imagery, with Galya adopting its half circle form as a dominant motif in her paintings. Over fifty years of cattle grazing greatly reduced the abundance of this grass. In her paintings,